Laura Haas

Unstructured Data: (2008)

Franz Faerber, Laura Haas, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram

Although enterprises commonly utilize sophisticated data integration technology and business intelligence tools for analysis of structured data, analysis of unstructured data is a separate process...

Beauty and the Beast: The Theory and Practice of Information Integration (2007)

Laura Haas

Abstract. Information integration is becoming a critical problem for businesses and individuals alike. Data volumes are sky-rocketing, and new sources and types of information are proliferating. This...

Beauty and the beast: The theory and practice of information integration (2007)

Laura Haas

Abstract. Information integration is becoming a critical problem for businesses and individuals alike. Data volumes are sky-rocketing, and new sources and types of information are proliferating. This...

The Lowell Database Research Self Assessment (2003)

Abiteboul, Serge, Agrawal, Rakesh, Bernstein, Phil, Carey, Mike, Ceri, Stefano, Croft, Bruce, ...

A group of senior database researchers gathers every few years to assess the state of database research and to point out problem areas that deserve additional focus. This report summarizes the...

Serge Abiteboul, Rakesh Agrawal, Phil Bernstein, Mike Carey, Stefano Ceri, Bruce Croft, David DeWitt, Mike Franklin, (2003)

Serge Abiteboul, Rakesh Agrawal, Phil Bernstein, Mike Carey, Stefano Ceri, Bruce Croft, ...

This report summarizes the discussion and conclusions of the sixth ad-hoc meeting held May 4-6, 2003 in Lowell, Mass. It observes that information management continues to be a critical component of...

The Stanford IBM Management of Multiple Information Systems (TSIMMIS)-IBM Almaden Research Center (1998)

Luniewski, Allen W., Haas, Laura

This report is a compilation of a summary of the research work and publications produced as a result of information systems management projects. This project attacked two problems of relevance to the...

Capabilities-Based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems (1998)

Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura Haas

. Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing different levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with different and limited capabilities are...

Capabilities-Based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems (1998)

Yannis Papakonstantinou Ashish, Ashish Gupta, Laura Haas

Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing different levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with different and limited capabilities are...

Data structures for efficient broker implementation (1997)

Anthony Tomasic, Luis Gravano, Calvin Lue, Peter Schwarz, Laura Haas

With the profusion of text databases on the Internet, it is becoming increasingly hard to find the most useful databases for a given query. To attack this problem, several existing and proposed...

Data Structures for Efficient Broker Implementation (1997)

Anthony Tomasic, Luis Gravano, Calvin Lue, Peter Schwarz, Laura Haas

With the profusion of text databases on the Internet, it is becoming increasingly hard to find the most useful databases for a given query. To attack this problem, several existing and proposed...

Data Structures for Efficient Broker Implementation (1997)

Anthony Tomasic, Luis Gravano, Calvin Lue, Peter Schwarz, Laura Haas

With the profusion of text databases on the Internet, it is becoming increasingly hard to find the most useful databases for a given query. To attack this problem, several existing and proposed...

Data Structures for Efficient Broker Implementation (1997)

Anthony Tomasic, Luis Gravano, Calvin Lue, Peter Schwarz, Laura Haas

this article, we show that the GlOSS summaries can be employed as the representation for summary information in a large-scale system. In particular, we offer evidence that GlOSS can effectively...

Capabilities-based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems (1996)

Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura Haas

Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing different levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with different and limited capabilities are...

PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases (1996)

Michael Carey, Laura Haas, Vivek Maganty, John Williams

This paper describes the design and implementation of PESTO (Portable Explorer of STructured Objects), a user interface that supports browsing and querying of object databases. PESTO allows users to...

An Optimizer for Heterogeneous Systems with NonStandard Data and Search Capabilities (1996)

Laura Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward L. Wimmers

Much of the world's nonstandard data resides in specialized data sources. This data must often be queried together with data from other sources to give users the information they desire. Queries...

Capabilities-Based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems (1996)

Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura Haas

Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing different levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with different and limited capabilities are...

Data Structures for Efficient Broker Implementation (1996)

Anthony Tomasic, Luis Gravano, Calvin Lue, Peter Schwarz, Laura Haas

With the profusion of text databases on the Internet, it is becoming increasingly hard to find the most useful databases for a given query. To attack this problem, several existing and proposed...

PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases (1996)

Michael Carey, Laura Haas, Vivekananda Maganty

This paper describes the design and implementation of PESTO (Portable Explorer of STruct- ured Objects), an integrated user interface that supports browsing and querying of object databases. Like...

An Optimizer for Heterogeneous Systems with NonStandard Data and Search Capabilities (1996)

Laura Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward L. Wimmers

Much of the world's nonstandard data resides in specialized data sources. This data must often be queried together with data from other sources to give users the information they desire. Queries...

Capabilities-Based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems (extended version) (1996)

Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura Haas

Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources that provide different levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with different and limited capabilities are...

Capabilities-based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems (1996)

Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura Haas

Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing di erent levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with di erent and limited capabilities are...